Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Disparaging; belittling: a derogatory comment.
- adj. Tending to detract or diminish.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Detracting or tending to lessen by taking something away; that lessens extent, effect, estimation, etc.: with to, sometimes from.
- Synonyms Depreciative, discreditable, disgraceful.
- n. A derogatory act or statement; a disparagement.
Wiktionary
- adj. Tending to derogate, or lessen in value of someone; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious.
- adj. law When referring to a clause in a testament: a sentence of secret character inserted by the testator alone, of which he reserves the knowledge to himself, with a condition that no will he may make thereafter shall be valid, unless this clause is inserted word for word; – a precaution to guard against later wills extorted by violence, or obtained by suggestion.
- n. A trade-line on a credit report that includes negative credit history.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Tending to derogate, or lessen in value; expressing a low opinion; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious; -- with from, to, or unto.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. expressive of low opinion
Etymologies
- From Late Latin dērogātōrius, from Latin dērogāre; corresponding to derogate + -ory. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The eyes filled with tears show her innocence, but her dot made the word derogatory and this is a good enough reason for a consequence and she should never in her life dare to think anything against Islam.”
“Mario Mancuso says they won't suspend those rules, but if they get what he calls derogatory information about how these Chinese companies are using the technology, they will revisit the process -- Wolf.”
“Pakistan's parliament criticized the pope for what it called his derogatory comments.”
“I’d referred to the Africans as munts though not to their faces even though I knew on some level that they considered the term derogatory or insulting.”
“Would you still call Pam a queer, or the community groups she belonged to queer groups, if she didn't want to be called queer, and found the term derogatory, defamatory, and / or offensive?”
“I offer no excuses other than that I myself didn’t feel the term derogatory to women.”
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“Gringo is a legitime word that sometimes is used in a derogatory way, but is very different to a word like greaser, wetback or beaner, which is derogatory from the conception. (native Mexican, location unkown) chinagringo”
“Of cause Obama was trying to be clever and point out McCain's age issue in derogatory way.”
“But government officials saying things that, in other contexts, could be construed as racist or derogatory is inexcusable.”
“But he was always on the alert, and if in debate any political opponent let slip a word derogatory to the”
Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
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